How many Australian friends have you?
Aug 12th 2004, 5:24 am
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by podgypossum
I was not directly aiming my post at you, i just clicked to make a post and it automatically included your post into it. (not got my head around this new set up yet)...
and i'm certainly not being bitchy with anyone HandyAndy!! just giving my opinion on it like everyone else.
and i'm certainly not being bitchy with anyone HandyAndy!! just giving my opinion on it like everyone else.
Aug 12th 2004, 5:29 am
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Handyandy180
I was not calling names and definitely not singling you out honest and hope that i haven't offended? In fact i hope that nobody is offended by me using that terminology. If you are I apologise.
No worries..i am not offended, just wanted to clarify that i dont "do bitchy" not my nature.
Once again the confusion of the written word. Often people misunderstand or interpet what was said differently to how it was meant to come across.
It can be quite amusing at times
Aug 12th 2004, 5:54 am
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by podgypossum
What difference does it make where your friends come from? What a daft analogy!! I have always picked my friends because i like their personality, have things in common and enjoy being with them. I dont see why i should force myself to mix (or not mix) with ANYONE just because of their nationality. How ridiculous!! Most of my friends here so far are British, only because thats mainly all i have had the chance to be with in the short time i have been here. Since starting college i have made friends with one German and two Aussies. I am not going to include or exclude anyone because of their roots. If all i end up with is British mates so what!! Someone said earlier in this thread... "what is an Aussie?" this is a good point. There a few living here that actually ARE true Aussies. Nearly everyone living here is or was descended from foreign stock.
I sat next to a woman in class yesterday who would be thought of as a true Aussie, and after a few minutes of conversation we discovered that her rellies came from Pinner...the very same village just outside London where i was born!!
I sat next to a woman in class yesterday who would be thought of as a true Aussie, and after a few minutes of conversation we discovered that her rellies came from Pinner...the very same village just outside London where i was born!!
If you look only at bloodlines I'm a true blue aussie (I'm the 6th generation of my family to be born here since the 1820's) yet I speak with a scottish accent and havent lived here for 24 years.
So Muzza, wanna meet a REAL aussie or dont I count ???
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Aug 12th 2004, 11:25 am
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Mairi&Chris
So very true PP.
If you look only at bloodlines I'm a true blue aussie (I'm the 6th generation of my family to be born here since the 1820's) yet I speak with a scottish accent and havent lived here for 24 years.
So Muzza, wanna meet a REAL aussie or dont I count ???
If you look only at bloodlines I'm a true blue aussie (I'm the 6th generation of my family to be born here since the 1820's) yet I speak with a scottish accent and havent lived here for 24 years.
So Muzza, wanna meet a REAL aussie or dont I count ???
and with a scots accent, that's even better, then I can understand what there saying too IMO, I would classify a real aussie as someone born here or brought here at a very young age and brought up in the australian way of life.
Aug 12th 2004, 11:53 am
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Muzza04
Sure hen, I wanna meet a REAL aussie. and with a scots accent, that's even better, then I can understand what there saying too
IMO, I would classify a real aussie as someone born here or brought here at a very young age and brought up in the australian way of life.
and with a scots accent, that's even better, then I can understand what there saying too IMO, I would classify a real aussie as someone born here or brought here at a very young age and brought up in the australian way of life.
British Australians, but Australians none the less.
Aug 12th 2004, 12:20 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Muzza04
I mean why travel 10,000km+ to here and end up mingling and drinking with a butch of brits and experience their humour!.
For we, and we were talking tonite about this very subject, have concluded that we will not be living(buying a house)in a densely populated Brit expat community. It defeats the purpose a wee bit. I prefer to be meeting Australians and learning and adopting there ways of life ...
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For we, and we were talking tonite about this very subject, have concluded that we will not be living(buying a house)in a densely populated Brit expat community. It defeats the purpose a wee bit. I prefer to be meeting Australians and learning and adopting there ways of life ...
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http://www.pomsinperth.com/discussio...er=asc&start=0
Aug 12th 2004, 12:29 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by owieb
Did you make this decision after attending a Poms In Perth meeting?
http://www.pomsinperth.com/discussio...er=asc&start=0
http://www.pomsinperth.com/discussio...er=asc&start=0
Aug 12th 2004, 12:30 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Handyandy180
Ladies and Gentlemen
Our holiday in Turkey was great, we had fish and chips from 'Harry Ramsdens'
I had a pint of Tetleys in Majorca, while we watched Eastenders and would you believe in a pub called the Rose and Crown, the afore mentioned pub was in the 'Spanish Square' Santa Ponsa. Really srtrange not a Spaniard in sight!!!!
All very fine if thats what floats your boat but to travel to the other side of the world to do what we do at home!!! Why bother?
Our holiday in Turkey was great, we had fish and chips from 'Harry Ramsdens'
I had a pint of Tetleys in Majorca, while we watched Eastenders and would you believe in a pub called the Rose and Crown, the afore mentioned pub was in the 'Spanish Square' Santa Ponsa. Really srtrange not a Spaniard in sight!!!!
All very fine if thats what floats your boat but to travel to the other side of the world to do what we do at home!!! Why bother?
Aug 12th 2004, 12:34 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by owieb
Did you make this decision after attending a Poms In Perth meeting?
http://www.pomsinperth.com/discussio...er=asc&start=0
http://www.pomsinperth.com/discussio...er=asc&start=0
Yep
Met a few poms.. and a few aussies too.
Cant get away from em, can you, there everywhere here in Perth
Aug 12th 2004, 1:56 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by renth
I'm sure most of the 25% of Australians not born in Australia would disagree with you. Our best friends have been here 15 years, never been back to the UK. You wouldn't want to make the mistake of suggesting they're not Australians.
British Australians, but Australians none the less.
British Australians, but Australians none the less.
He was born in England, although you'd never guess it as his accent and way of speaking is totally Australian of course. He calls himself a Pom! I tell him he is not a pom ( love to wind him up) ... and he will argue blue and say " I am not an Aussie ***er. I'm a Pom/English" (which is funny when he says it in his Aussie accent!lol very mixed up he is ..lol) .
He's never been to the UK, he can't remember being in the UK as a young baby.. the Uk is foreign to him ... and yet he considers himself English and not Australian believe it or not. He actually wants to go and live in England
Maybe he has this state of mind from his parents (both English) and they brought him up telling him he is English first and foremost. You will also see this from some ethnics from Asia here too
Anyway I do think it really is a state of mind with certain individuals. Nothing is black and white, and cut and dry.
I can never be Australian even if I lived here until I were a thousand years old. Although technically I am a Brit and am Australian citizen by law. . The Australian citizen- it's just a bit of paper to me... meaningless.
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Aug 12th 2004, 2:34 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Ceri
The Australian citizen- it's just a bit of paper to me... meaningless.
Aug 12th 2004, 3:05 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by owieb
Bet that went down well at your citizenship ceremony!
..citizenship ceremony he wore his welsh rugby jersey.,..LOL... I said you can't wear that to the ceremony.. "I'm not going if I can't wear it".
You collect your certificates off the mayor.. shake her hand and all the rubbish. She says to my hubby do you play rugby for Wales..lol
We had an English couple sitting next to us.. the man was looking a bit uncomfortable in his suit.. and was grinning like hell at my hubby with his rugby jersey. He turned round to his wife.. see that bloke there has his welsh colours on, I could have worn my English shirt ( poor man.. his wife must have made him wear a suit) .. henpecked.
Aug 12th 2004, 3:32 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
1 ozzie m8 but all the rest english
strange the way it is, dont mean to only be friends with pomme's but .......
emmmmmmm ??
dont know
strange the way it is, dont mean to only be friends with pomme's but .......
emmmmmmm ??
dont know
Aug 12th 2004, 3:37 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by bussie
1 ozzie m8 but all the rest english
strange the way it is, dont mean to only be friends with pomme's but .......
emmmmmmm ??
dont know
strange the way it is, dont mean to only be friends with pomme's but .......
emmmmmmm ??
dont know
I know, I'm going out on Monday with a pom (Swiss Tony from here), just spoke to him on the phone, nice to hear a friendly accent
Having said that I'm also going diving on Thursday so will probably spend the whole day with aussies then (and quite happy to do so)
Aug 12th 2004, 3:46 pm
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Re: How many Australian friends have you?
Originally Posted by Ceri
You think I'm bad... you haven't met my hubby....
citizenship ceremony he wore his welsh rugby jersey.,..LOL... I said you can't wear that to the ceremony.. "I'm not going if I can't wear it".
You collect your certificates off the mayor.. shake her hand and all the rubbish. She says to my hubby do you play rugby for Wales..lol
We had an English couple sitting next to us.. the man was looking a bit uncomfortable in his suit.. and was grinning like hell at my hubby with his rugby jersey. He turned round to his wife.. see that bloke there has his welsh colours on, I could have worn my English shirt ( poor man.. his wife must have made him wear a suit) .. henpecked.
..citizenship ceremony he wore his welsh rugby jersey.,..LOL... I said you can't wear that to the ceremony.. "I'm not going if I can't wear it".
You collect your certificates off the mayor.. shake her hand and all the rubbish. She says to my hubby do you play rugby for Wales..lol
We had an English couple sitting next to us.. the man was looking a bit uncomfortable in his suit.. and was grinning like hell at my hubby with his rugby jersey. He turned round to his wife.. see that bloke there has his welsh colours on, I could have worn my English shirt ( poor man.. his wife must have made him wear a suit) .. henpecked.
